[lahp-soo s kah-lah-mee; English lap-suh s kal-uh-mahy, -mee]
a slip of the pen.
Oops—you’ve made a Freudian slip. What’s the technical term for a slip of the tongue?
It’s one thing to make a typo on your resume, but we know of a worse kind of mistake: calling your boy or girlfriend the name of a previous paramour. Or perhaps you’re talking to your boss and out of your mouth pops an obscene word that rhymes with what you meant to say. These slips, of tongue, the keyboard, or the pen, are generally …
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